In work and study, we often hope to synchronize bookmarks between different browsers ; and some traditional browser bookmark synchronization solutions are more or less facing some problems-for example, although Chrome browser can achieve Better cross-device synchronization, but the synchronization may be unstable due to network limitations; on the other hand, for example, if you want to achieve cross-browser synchronization (such as connecting the bookmarks of the Chrome browser on a certain computer with this or another computer Firefox browser bookmark synchronization on the Internet), there are few reliable solutions.
With the help of floccus , a browser plug-in, browser bookmarks can be synchronized across browsers and devices. This article introduces in detail the method of cross-platform and cross-device automatic synchronization of browser bookmarks based on the floccus plug-in and the WebDAV protocol of Nutstore .
1. Why do you choose to manage your bookmarks in this way?
- Google Chrome doesn't work with sync for some well-known reasons, which can be a pain point for users with multiple devices.
- Chrome is also unable to install plug-ins conveniently due to well-known reasons, but Microsoft Edge can happily access plug-ins to install plug-ins. Therefore, the need for cross-browser bookmark synchronization is also the reason for using this method for bookmark synchronization.
2. What is Floccus?
Floccus is an open source project on GitHub, the official profile of the project is as follows
Simply put, it is a plug-in that supports cross-platform synchronization between Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox, and depends on Nextcloud, WebDAV or a local file.
3. What is Nut Cloud?
Nutstore is a network disk, but Nutstore is the only cloud storage in China that supports the WebDAV protocol . Therefore, it must be the first choice for domestic use, and the quota of the free version is more than enough for synchronizing bookmarks. As for the difference between it and some other online disks and the specific functions, you can refer to the article "Among the few domestic online disks left, it may be your best choice: Nut Cloud "Welfare"" .
The monthly free data of Nutstore Cloud is not much, as shown in the figure below, but it is enough for bookmark synchronization
4. Synchronous deployment of bookmarks
4.1. Install plug-ins and register Nutstore account
Install the floccus bookmarks sync plugin in your browser extension. It is more convenient to install this plug-in for the Microsoft Edge browser, but for the Chrome browser, you need to go online scientifically to install the plug-in.
Register Nut Cloud Account Nut Cloud Official Website|Network Disk|Cloud Disk|Cloud Service|Team Collaboration Software|Sync Disk
4.2. Nutstore configuration
1. Open the Nutstore official website and log in to your Nutstore account. Click on the account name in the upper right corner and select [Account Information]
2. Then select [Security Options], and then find [Third-Party Application Management] in [Security Options], select [Add Application], and pop-up box 4.
Then enter the name [floccus] in box 4 (here the name can be defined according to your needs, which is easy to distinguish) , select [Generate Password], and select [Finish].
Figure 5 below is the newly created third-party application
4.3 Set bookmark synchronization folder in Nutstore
1. Create a bookmark synchronization folder [bookmarks_floccus] in Nutstore, as shown in the figure below, in box 4, bookmarks_floccus is the newly created bookmark synchronization collection.
2. Upload a [bookmarks.xbel] file in [bookmarks_floccus], as shown in the figure below
bookmarks.xbel is used to record bookmark information, the content is as follows
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE xbel PUBLIC "+//IDN python.org//DTD XML Bookmark Exchange Language 1.0//EN//XML" "http://pyxml.sourceforge.net/topics/dtds/xbel.dtd">
<xbel version="1.0">
</xbel>4.4 Setting up the Floccus plugin
1. Go back to our browser, find the floccus plug-in that was just installed, and click the plug-in icon.
Then, click " New Account " to create a new account; in the pop-up window, select the " WebDAV Sharing " option and click " Continue ".
2. Next, in the pop-up window (as shown in the figure below),
The first line follows the " server address " in the " third-party application management " of Nut Cloud mentioned above , but the full path should point to the location of the bookmark synchronization folder. The bookmark synchronization folder in this question is bookmarks_floccus, so the first The address of the line is: https://dav.jianguoyun.com/dav/bookmarks_floccus
The second line can be entered according to the " Account " in the " Third-Party Application Management " of Nut Cloud mentioned above .
In the third line of password, enter the password generated by our nut cloud in the early stage;
The fourth line "Passphrase" can be left blank
then click continue
3. Then in the pop-up dialog box,
In the bookmark path bar, enter the path of the file we created earlier bookmarks.xbel , because the path of the previous server has already pointed to the synchronization folder, so write directly here bookmarks.xbel 即可。
In the local folder bar, select the root directory "/"
Other settings can be defaulted, and the configuration is complete here
The synchronization interval can be set according to your own needs, and can be set to synchronize once every 15 minutes by default. The configuration is now complete.
4.5. Synchronization settings after configuration
After the above settings are completed, set the bookmark synchronization scheme. The pro-test merge option will merge the cloud bookmark with the local bookmark. Therefore, if the bookmark is deleted locally, the cloud data will be downloaded and merged during synchronization. Therefore, if bookmark synchronization is required when. There are two options
1. One browser can manually choose to push , and the other browser can manually choose to pull . Then close the plugin and manually sync when needed
2. Or one main browser chooses to push , and another browser chooses to pull , so that the modification of the main browser will be synchronized to the other browser.
Reference article:
How to manage your own browser bookmarks with Floccus + Nut Cloud